Apple’s new AirPods Pro 3 are taking the most popular headphones in the world to an entirely new level. AirPods Pro 3 deliver unbelievable sound quality and the world’s best in-ear Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) — removing up to 2x more noise than the previous-generation AirPods Pro, and 4x more than the original AirPods Pro.
The updated design helps AirPods Pro 3 fit even better and provides greater in-ear stability during activities like running, HIIT, yoga, and more. For the first time, users can utilize AirPods Pro 3 to measure heart rate and track over 50 workout types with the new experience in the Fitness app on iPhone.
Live Translation also comes to AirPods, making face-to-face conversations easier by helping users connect even if they don’t speak the same language.
Chris Velazco for The Washington Post:
Apple’s earlier AirPods Pro earbuds are my go-to for domestic travel, because they make napping with my head pressed up against the window easier. The catch? They wouldn’t always survive longer flights, like the five-ish-hour journey from San Francisco to see my family outside Philadelphia.
That’s not really an issue anymore. The AirPods Pro 3 easily powered through the five-hour flight home from testing the iPhone Air in Hawaii with noise cancellation on, and stuck it out nearly four more hours after I beelined to our San Francisco bureau.
It still won’t block out, say, jackhammers pounding the street, but in moments when you’re surrounded by more of an ambient thrum — the consistent murmur of conversations at the office or the roar of airplane engines — the AirPods can almost entirely silence your surroundings.
Apple says the AirPods’ heart-rate tracking can add this biological context to more than 50 workouts, including weightlifting, yoga, high-intensity work and more, but I’ve mostly been using it to track runs and walks. And in my testing, I’ve found its heart-rate readings generally lined up full-blown fitness watches like Garmin’s Epix Gen 2.
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